 | 1868
...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours : Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. And though at times, impetuous with emotion, And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW. THERE were morning prayers before the hurried breakfast, which was interspersed... | |
 | M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to...us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to...us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal 'breath Is but a suburb... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume their dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to...us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. » " The Seaside and Fireside." By WH Long fellow. Liverpool : Walker. " There is no death —... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume their dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists ported that she had seen two strangers lurking in...this covert. The near prospect of reward animated th lamps. * " The Seaside and Fireside." fellow. Liverpool: Walker. By WH Long ' There is no death —... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...celestial benedictions Assume their dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; — Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! what seems so is Transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb... | |
 | Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851 - 438 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." What is it there is so fascinating in this life— discomforts, inconveniences of all kinds... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 406 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." What is it there is so fascinating in this life — discomforts, inconveniences of all kinds... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taners, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of... | |
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Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers... 
